Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking to his congregation in Montgomery, Alabama said:
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies…is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me [...]
Paul and I agreed that my latest post on IGT would be an interesting contribution, although there was some equivocation about whether people would respond to it maturely. Well, let’s see! Check out my article White Self Indulgence which is a meditation on music, race and fandom:
I often need to rev myself up with defiant [...]
My latest public piece of writing is an essay on Pasadena at Is Greater Than:
During those trips, I dreamed of Pasadena and its sprawling lawns. I dreamed of a car with fancy automated locks and windows that had ventilation in the back. I dreamed of living far enough from the freeway that I couldn’t hear [...]
So, I thought this was a pretty good editorial, written by a white person, about how the new film Avatar seems to be about white guilt manifest, yet again. Kind of like a sci-fi <i>Dances With Wolves. I enjoyed DWW as a child, but later came to recognize the fallacy in the narrative. This was [...]
With no independent bookstores in the city and the last chain outlet slated for closure, residents will have to travel about 150 miles across arid ranchland to San Antonio to buy books.
via The bookstore-less streets of Laredo | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times.
All together now, let’s breath a sigh of relief that such a website does not exist. At least not as far as Google can tell me. A search for the words “brainy black bitches” pulls up the website, “MY BLACK SLUTS,” a pornography site with its own set of linguistic problems that I won’t get [...]
via YouTube - How To Tell People They Sound Racist .
Kevin Smith, elder statesman: Who knew?
Live: Kevin Smith at the Orpheum Theatre — latimes.com.
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